TALLAHASSEE — Republican leaders from 22 other states are trying to help Florida convince a federal appeals court to put on hold a judge’s ruling that required winding down operations at an Everglades immigrant-detention center challenged by environmental groups and the Miccosukee Tribe.

Attorneys general from the other states filed documents Tuesday at the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals as Florida seeks a stay of a preliminary injunction issued last week by U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams in a battle about the detention center dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.”

Williams sided with Friends of the Everglades, the Center for Biological Diversity and the Miccosukee Tribe, which alleged violations of the National Environmental Policy Act, a federal law that requires evaluating potentia

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